Question

I have an array: $product_counts = array_count_values($product_array);

The keys for this array are merchant ID’s and the values are integers (product counts). So if I was to write the following code:

foreach($product_counts as $key => $value){
    echo "key: $key";
    echo "value: $value";
        }

I would get the following (which is what I want):

key: 26816928 value: 13
key: 26816931 value: 2 ... 
X the amount of indexes in the array. 

However if I was to write the following code:

foreach($product_counts as $key => $value){
    mysql_query("INSERT INTO merchantinfo(ProductCount) VALUES $value WHERE MerchantID = $key"); 
}

The values of the $value variable don’t go into the field where MerchantID = $key….instead the tuples just default to null, which is what I’ve set them to do. I believe this could be a case of needing to type cast the variable as integers …. but I’m in general quite lost with this.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You cannot use a where clause in an insert statement. I think you want to use update instead.

mysql_query("update merchantinfo set ProductCount= $value WHERE MerchantID = $key");